SECAI Core · phase 9 of 15
AI Center of Excellence
A cross-functional team in an organization that serves as the hub for safe and effective AI implementation and support
The Explain card
- Plain English
- An AI Center of Excellence is a cross-functional team that acts as the organisation's hub for safe and effective AI adoption, offering standards, tooling, guidance and support.
- Example
- A manufacturer's CoE brings together data scientists, security, legal and operations. It maintains the approved model list, runs the intake process for new use cases, publishes secure prompting guidelines, and helps a plant team deploy a defect-detection model without reinventing controls.
- Why it matters
- Without a hub, every department experiments on its own and security learns about deployments after the fact. The CoE gives defenders a seat at the table before projects start.
- Hook
- One kitchen, shared recipes, fewer fires.
Where it sits in the deck
Phase 9: Roles, Teams, and Organisational Accountability
Governance frameworks are executed by people — introduce the human roles and organisational structures responsible for building, operating, and auditing AI systems.
